Thank you for agreeing to join this action research project on Digital Curation. I hope that you will find it a rewarding experience for both yourself and your students.
This Wiki has been set up as a private space, all participants in the project have their own page for developing ideas and posting a short weekly update of their activities - say 50 -150 words - of course you can use audio or video as an alternative. It is more than likely this wiki will change and evolve considerably over the course of the project.
Rationale
We all know that there are thousands of valuable educational resources available on the Internet, and we have all heard of Information Overload. Speculative searching and visiting lists of web links are unlikely to prove to be an effective use of time. Recently social bookmarking and networking tools such as Delicious and Twitter have made it much easier to find and share resources with other teachers. Good resources and practice have often been amplified by sharing at ground-up events such as TeachMeets, encouraging teachers to share knowledge and praxis at a face to face level, this is subsequently amplified by social networks.
Online collaborative curation tools such as Scoop.it can take this further. Educators can use Scoop.it, to find, share and add extra value to web resources for themselves, their colleagues and most importantly of all; their students, (who indeed can also be curators), in opening up innovative ways of sharing, collaborating and publishing digital content. The project has been set up to explore this thesis.
Curation All you need is deep interest in a subject, area of expertise or a concept; that you would like to share with your professional peers or students. Hopefully you will also discover many new resources tthat will be useful in your work and also make new connections with other educators.
Your, (and possibly your students' if they are involved in the curation process), expertise and knowledge will also be recognised when you curate and share resources as widely as possible and get others to pass them on. Curation is an ideal channel for teachers who may not be naturally inclined to blogging
It is these added value factors that this project will explore, document and report.
Welcome
Introduction
Thank you for agreeing to join this action research project on Digital Curation. I hope that you will find it a rewarding experience for both yourself and your students.This Wiki has been set up as a private space, all participants in the project have their own page for developing ideas and posting a short weekly update of their activities - say 50 -150 words - of course you can use audio or video as an alternative. It is more than likely this wiki will change and evolve considerably over the course of the project.
Rationale
We all know that there are thousands of valuable educational resources available on the Internet, and we have all heard of Information Overload. Speculative searching and visiting lists of web links are unlikely to prove to be an effective use of time. Recently social bookmarking and networking tools such as Delicious and Twitter have made it much easier to find and share resources with other teachers. Good resources and practice have often been amplified by sharing at ground-up events such as TeachMeets, encouraging teachers to share knowledge and praxis at a face to face level, this is subsequently amplified by social networks.Online collaborative curation tools such as Scoop.it can take this further. Educators can use Scoop.it, to find, share and add extra value to web resources for themselves, their colleagues and most importantly of all; their students, (who indeed can also be curators), in opening up innovative ways of sharing, collaborating and publishing digital content. The project has been set up to explore this thesis.
Curation
All you need is deep interest in a subject, area of expertise or a concept; that you would like to share with your professional peers or students. Hopefully you will also discover many new resources tthat will be useful in your work and also make new connections with other educators.
Your, (and possibly your students' if they are involved in the curation process), expertise and knowledge will also be recognised when you curate and share resources as widely as possible and get others to pass them on. Curation is an ideal channel for teachers who may not be naturally inclined to blogging
It is these added value factors that this project will explore, document and report.